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Alison Rosen Is Your New Best Friend

Allen Salkin

Alison Rosen Is Your New Best Friend

Alison Rosen

Funny, Comic, Interviews, Women, Celebrity, Grief, Psychology, Comedy Interviews, Comedy

4.66.5K Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2014

⏱️ 107 minutes

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Summary

Allen Salkin (The New York Times, From Scratch: The Uncensored History of the Food Network) stops by this episode of Alison Rosen Is Your New Best Friend to talk about Guy Fieri, Paula Deen, Rachael Ray, Bobby Flay, the writing community in New York, the value of journalism school, whether writing can be taught, breaking off an engagement, relationships, narcissism, therapy, losing his father, interviewing and so much more. We also did a round of Just Me Or Everyone

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0:00.0

Hey guys, it's me Allison.

0:12.5

I just want to say thank you so much for listening.

0:14.9

If you like what you're hearing, which, let's face it, you do, tell a friend.

0:19.6

You can listen to us all sorts of places.

0:21.7

A couple of them would be iTunes or AllisonRosen.com.

0:24.9

Hey everyone, hi, hello, it is me Allison Rosen.

0:50.4

Welcome to another exciting episode of AllisonRosen, is your new best friend.

0:53.7

I'm sitting here with writer Alan Salkin, who is the author of From Scratch Inside The

0:59.5

Food Network.

1:00.5

That's the name of the hardcover, but it just came out pretty recently in paperback, right?

1:04.0

From scratch, from scratch, the uncensored history of the food network.

1:08.9

That's the paperback title.

1:10.3

Or is that now just like the title?

1:12.2

I like it's a better title, so now it's the title.

1:14.6

Okay.

1:15.6

Now, was that your idea to change it?

1:19.2

Well.

1:20.2

And who's doing the censoring?

1:22.9

Who's doing the censoring?

1:25.5

Oh God.

1:26.5

I once asked the who, a similar question, like they had this ad for their new tour, which

1:32.4

was, I can't remember this damn story, I'm telling you.

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